91: Chapter 91: A Bestseller!

Chu Yin's screams echoed over the ruins for nearly ten seconds.

Su Bai released her collar and brushed the dust off his hands. Kyubey poked its head out from his shoulder, its red, glass-like eyes scanning the surroundings.

[ "Su Bai, the structural damage to the Convention Center exceeds sixty percent. The main dome is completely shattered. The storage room by the side door is, however, intact." ]

"...There's no need to report such things."

[ "Understood. However, your folding table is still there." ]

Su Bai glanced toward the storage room. The handwritten banner was crooked, and the final stroke of the character 'Mie' had completely snapped. Chairman Lin was crouching nearby, using a fountain pen to retrace the character.

This billionaire Chamber of Commerce chairman was crouching in a pile of rubble to trace a banner.

Su Bai decided to pretend he hadn't seen it.

Lin Xiao walked over, her phone screen lit up. Her expression flickered repeatedly between 'surviving a disaster' and 'the instinct of a businessperson.'

"Su Bai, I got news from my sister. All one hundred mass-produced copies were just snapped up."

"...What?"

"It wasn't the customers who bought them."

Lin Xiao turned the phone screen around. On the screen was the temporary assembly point next to the main hall ruins, where a group of burly mercenaries who had just been fleeing for their lives were surrounding Lin Weiwei. It wasn't a metaphor—they were truly surrounded, layers deep. Some were holding up Star Cards. Some were shouting, "I'll pay double!" There was even a bald man who had stuck his battle-axe into the ground, declaring he wouldn't leave until he bought one today.

"It's the people who were at the scene. They saw with their own eyes Chu Yin vaporize three Tier 9 creatures with one blast. Then the livestream replay was shared eight million times."

Su Bai blinked.

"So our cards—"

"—are sold out!!"

Zhao Dahai rushed out of the storage room, his chubby face covered in a layer of dust. He was clutching his phone, and the backend data for the Sanctuary shop on the screen was jumping upward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"One—two—five—wait, thirteen just sold in one go—no, this order is a group buy, thirty cards—Su Bai, look at this! Someone left a note when placing the order: 'Please, let me transform, I'd rather wear twin tails!' The note section allows a maximum of two hundred words, and he wrote nearly a thousand!"

"A thousand words?" Su Bai took the phone.

The note section was indeed packed full. It started with, "Respected Master Su Bai, hello," continued with, "I am an outer disciple of the War God Temple, having practiced for eleven years and stuck at Tier 5," and ended with, "As long as I can transform into a Magical Girl, I am willing to sign any contract, wear any skirt, and say any lines." The phrasing was extremely respectful. They used at least five honorifics.

Su Bai finished reading.

"People from the War God Temple? Didn't their Vice Chairman lead the boycott?"

"The Vice Chairman was the one boycotting." Lin Xiao's lips curled up. "The ones placing orders now are the outer disciples. They're voting with their feet."

Kyubey jumped from Su Bai's shoulder in front of Zhao Dahai's phone screen. It flicked its tail.

[ "This outer disciple's causality rating is above average. The probability of their soul wavelength adapting to a Magical Girl is over seventy percent. I suggest processing this one first." ]

"You've really started acting as customer service."

[ "I am helping you filter customers. This person's sincerity is much more reliable than that anonymous user who repeatedly canceled their order four times before." ]

Su Bai recalled the record of Sword Saint Lu Changsheng repeatedly placing and canceling orders in the middle of the night. His mouth twitched.

Then the sky tore open.

Li Qingyue stepped out from the spatial rift. The golden light of the universal balance slowly dissipated from her fingertips. Her silvery-white hair was dusted with a few strands of gray, but her cold expression remained unmoved.

"Demon Lord Xuangu has been annihilated, and the rift is sealed... However, I'm afraid cards can't be sold at this booth anymore. Forget it, since my disciple is here, I don't mind lending a hand."

Su Bai looked up, watching Li Qingyue in surprise.

Master is small in stature, but her abilities are huge!

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan also walked out from a flame rift, her military boots stepping on the rubble. Both Supremes looked at him simultaneously.

Li Qingyue swept a glance over the surrounding ruins, then raised her hand.

The golden light of the universal balance spread out from her fingertips. There was none of the suffocating, majestic suppression of laws from before. This time, it was as light as someone using an eraser to rub out pencil lines on paper.

Rubble floated up, cracks healed, and the collapsed holographic projection tower stood back up. Glass shards shattered by the Tier 9 magic pressure flew back into the window frames like rain playing in reverse.

Thirty seconds.

The entire Convention Center was restored to how it looked before Demon Lord Xuangu appeared.

Beside them, Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan's eyelids twitched, and she said in surprise, "You've grasped the Law of Time to this extent?"

"It's Su Bai's credit."

Li Qingyue smiled faintly and lowered her hand. At first glance, her cute face seemed expressionless, but upon closer inspection, it was full of smugness. "However, I can only master it to this extent. In reality, it's not worth fully utilizing it; it can only be considered a temporary repair... Hmm, it's better to change locations. The original plaza was pretty much blown up by you all, so let's go to the center."

"You just want to show off your Law of Time!" Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan was speechless, then wished she could quickly refine that Incubator again. She had originally been considering what wish to make, but this interruption had wasted so much of her effort. Fortunately, there was no loss this time, and Su Bai had made a great contribution, so she could rest easy.

Su Bai looked around. Most of the structure was indeed restored, but the hole in the main hall's dome directly pierced by the pink beam of light—that hole was still there. Li Qingyue probably felt that whether it was fixed or not didn't matter.

The new booth was moved to the very center of the main hall, which was the largest stage previously booked by the Beast God Armament.

"Go ahead." Li Qingyue nodded toward Su Bai.

And then.

Madness!

Literally madness!

Before Su Bai even had time to set up the folding table, a tide of people surged in from all directions.

The purchasing officers who had hesitated for a long time at the entrance of the main hall were the first to rush in. Then came the representatives of various major family chambers of commerce, then the burly mercenaries, and then several quartermasters wearing the uniforms of the Frost Throne—yes, the same Frost Throne that was the first to post that morning, saying, "We will not be purchasing at this time."

"Give me ten!"

"I was here first!! I was queuing here since this morning!!"

"You were queuing over at the Beast God Armament side this morning, you bastard!"

"Can't I change my mind now!!"

"Master Su Bai!! Please give me an autograph!! Sign it on this card of mine!! Yes, this Kyubey one—I just bought it—it's hot off the press—the packaging hasn't even been opened yet!!"

Su Bai looked at the hundreds of hands reaching out simultaneously in front of him. Each hand clutched a Star Card, a check, or simply bundles of cash. Someone ripped the War God Temple emblem off their chest and trampled it underfoot. Someone held up a card while shouting, "What's a sex change? I didn't even wear pants back at the Abyss Front!" Others were taking out their phones on the spot to film videos—"Brothers, I bought a magical girl card today. From today on, I am a Magical Girl."

Among them, some people were probably here to get stronger.

But as for some of them...

Su Bai felt that some people's eyes were flickering with excitement, not looking like they wanted to get stronger, but rather like they were after the transformation effect... But it didn't matter; Su Bai didn't turn anyone away anyway. He was just a card seller; who cares how others use them?

Kyubey crouched on the display table, tilting its head.

[ "Su Bai, that person who trampled the War God Temple emblem. They were queuing over at the Beast God Armament side just a moment ago." ]

"How do you know?"

[ "I remember their causality wavelength. Three hours ago, their emotion was 'showing off.' Now it is 'fanatical conversion.' The conversion efficiency is very high." ]

"...When did you, a cat, learn to do customer profiling? And that was an emotion, right!"

[ "Last week, your shop data was too messy, so I built a CRM system for you while I was at it. Besides, causality and emotions are related; causality is a collection of various pieces of information, and emotion is just one side of the reaction." ]

Su Bai decided not to ask why a Ragdoll cat knew how to use a CRM.

Zhao Dahai was busy behind the checkout counter, dripping with sweat. Lin Xiao produced a POS machine from somewhere and was swiping her fingers across the holographic screen at lightning speed. Chairman Lin stood beside the display stand, his suit sleeves rolled up to his elbows—he had given up on tracing the banner and started directly writing the words "Sold Out" on blank price tags. Lin Weiwei moved mass-produced cards out of the warehouse box by box; her coffee had long since gone cold, but she couldn't suppress the arc of her lips.

Then the system chimed.

[ "Ding!" ]

[ "Detected that the host has accumulated enough sales of conceptual cards." ]

[ "Magical Girl contractors have reached ten. Causality network synchronization established." ]

[ "Host level increased—19 → 20." ]

[ "Conditions for promotion to Tier 2 Card Creator have been met." ]

[ "Unlocking—" ]